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they would wield a greater power than all the other « b + dies' put together , even as the beautiful spirit of Christianity has worked its way in the world in spite of the abuse with which most of its professors have overlaid it . Christ was the first radical upon
record , and his true disciples are waxing more numerous than ever in these latter days . I have been led to these remarks by a great book and a little book , which have just alighted in my pathway , both produced by men remarkable as lovers of their species , and who , without other influence than their own cultivated minds , have
acquired considerable control in their own spheres over the tastes and pursuits of their fellows . The name of James Luckcock , of Birmingham , is honoured wherever it is known , and the influence of his spirit and the practice of his most blameless life , constantly active in the furtherance of his creed , ' I believe in doing good , ' has mainly contributed to effect the change in the people of Birmingham from what they were in the days of Priestley , to what they
are now : in a word , he has been a most efficient promoter of rational education amongst the working classes . It is a beautiful thing to contemplate the life of this most exemplary man ; it fills the heart with love and veneration growing out of the satisfied judgment . In all his relations in life , which give an outward indication of the heart within him , and by which alone the worth of a man can be safely judged , there has not been a speck upon him ;
all who know him look up to him as an apostle of the latter days ; all who know him look forward with pain to the time when his spirit must pass away and the component parts of his material organization be mingled with the common mass of matter . If his biography shall fall into able hands , the history of his valuable though not brilliant existence will prove a useful lesson to many
holding humble stations in the world , to go and do likewise . I cannot refrain from quoting the words of this good old man , in a letter to one whom he honours with his friendship ; they will speak to the hearts of all who are capable of appreciating moral beauty far more effectually than the wannest encomiums any of his friends could bestow : —
4 I have taken a fresh census of the days of my pilgrimage , and find a wonderful rapidity in their increase on the one hand , and consequent decrease on the other . My beautiful garden adjoins my house , and was always my recreation and deli g ht ; judge then ( but you cannot ) the severity of my privation , when I tell you that I have not been in it the last six month a , and still more , that during the last eight or ten weeks I have been confined to my chamber , and do not feel confidence that the
approaching warm season will release me from it . I have no inflammatory or chronic complaint upon me , no agonizing pangs to endure ; my appetite is good , and my sleep abundant and refreshing as 1 might reasonably expect ; but still I have strong symptoms of vital decay , and cannot attempt the smallest exertion without beiog much distressed in my breathing , attendant with convulsive epaaana about the region of my heart , that tell me , ill very plain term ** that I am mortal ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1834, page 486, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2635/page/26/
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